Hi, I'm Alex!

Some people call me Pony.

I’m a senior full-stack developer based in Portland, Oregon with 8+ years of professional experience developing websites and applications in education, marketing and agency environments. I'm a huge advocate for Craft CMS and recently spoke at their Dot All conference.

I was recently hired as a developer at Work & Co and I'm no longer taking on contract work.

Selected Work

Parliament Shop

At Parliament, I helped build their eCommerce shop using Craft Commerce. Some of my main tasks included setting up the cart flow, setting up product fields and integrating Craft Commerce with ShipHero’s fulfillment API and web hooks.

onXmaps

At Parliament, I helped build a new marketing and eCommerce site for onXmaps, using Craft CMS and Craft Commerce. Some of my main tasks included setting up all the fields for the site per wireframes, loading blog posts with AJAX and creating custom plugins for building forms, locating dealers, Twilio notifications and integrating Craft Commerce with ShipWorks’ fulfillment software.

Icon Motosports

At Parliament, I helped build Icon Motosports a new marketing site for all three of their brands: Icon, Raiden and Icon 1000. All three sites are controlled by a single Craft CMS instance. Some of my main tasks included creating a system for categorizing pages, photos and products so they only show up for the desired brand and creating plugins for locating dealers, building forms, and accepting rider application submissions.

Parliament

At Parliament, I helped refresh their site. Some of my main tasks included building out case study sections, enhancing the “pancakes” content-builder system, setting up happy hour notifications, writing scripts to keep local, staging and production environment synced and creating a plugin to wrap up commonly used code.

My Role

Technologies I Used

Codes and Arrows

At Parliament, I helped create the Codes and Arrows installation for Design Week Portland using Craft CMS. Participants could shoot arrows at a target and generate planets based on where and how hard their arrows hit. My main task included creating a custom queue plugin integrated with Twilio to send participants their positions in queue and the planet they created. Read more about the project by viewing the case study.

My Role

Back-end development

Technologies I Used

Holst

At Parliament, I helped build Holst a new marketing site using Craft CMS. My main tasks included setting up all the fields for the site per wireframes and helping out with front-end development as needed.

Home with Heroes

At Parliament, I helped refresh the Home with Heroes marketing site using Craft CMS. My main tasks included turning their existing static site into a fully dynamic one controlled by the CMS, rewriting most of the front-end and developing new sections.

LemonTree Realty

I built LemonTree Realty a new marketing site using WordPress. My main tasks included responsive front-end development, using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) to set up all content fields, setting up form submissions and integrating the site with IDX to show MLS listings.

My Role

Technologies I Used

Full Sail Blog

At Full Sail, I helped create the Full Sail Blog using WordPress. My main tasks included using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) to set up content fields, implementing security and caching, fixing bugs, building new features and helping out with front-end as needed.

My Role

Technologies I Used

Camp Boggy Creek

With Eric Van Holtz, I helped build Boggy Creek a new marketing site using WordPress. It won a 2014 Orlando Silver Addy. My main tasks included using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) to set up all content fields, creating a better system for displaying camp schedules, assisting in moving to a new web host and helping out with front-end as needed.